Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
So you want to be a writer
Periodically, someone asks my advice about being a writer and getting published. My advice is pretty much the same every time. Here’s what I wrote some time ago for the Desiring God blog.
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Dear John & Noel – PLEASE keep a journal(s) during your sabatical. WE are a selfish lot out here, but with good cause: American pastors and their wives NEED the learning. Even now I have a son in seminary – a very gifted-by-God student. The theology learning is not as hard as learning to divide the time needed for wife, children, and the church sheep. Seminary wives see less and less of their husbands as the study and ministry demands increase. Wives need their pastor-husbands, too! How much harder it will be when they have their own pastorate? Yet can there not be a balanced-priorty in a pastor’s life as there is for the Christian at large? God first, then family, then work? No Christian really expects to have “weekend’s off” but how do we learn to balance the needs? How do wive best support their husbands here and the husbands their wives and children? We need to learn from your real-life struggles with this. Our American pastors and their families need to know which “sirens” to may be pitfalls so that they may be vigilant and god-centered in all they do. Looking forward to your insights and especially praying for your renewed love in our LORD and in each other!